Canard

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Canard is a French word for a duck, and is often used in English to refer to a deliberately false story, originating from an abbreviated form of an old French idiom, "vendre un canard à moitié," meaning "to half-sell a duck." It may refer to:

• Canard (aeronautics), flight control surfaces mounted at the front of an aircraft or an aircraft bearing such surfaces
• Le Canard enchaîné, a satirical French newspaper, based on the French usage of canard to mean a newspaper.
• Canard (dynamical systems) is a phenomenon in some slow-fast dynamical systems referring to high sensitivity of a periodic orbit to a parameter [1]. Canards are used in some models of neuronal spiking.
• Canard, Nova Scotia a community in Kings County

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